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QT-P15. Region and Country or Area of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population: 2000

Region and country or area Number Percent
     
         Foreign-born population 1,946 100.0%
Europe 119 6.1%
    Northern Europe 76 3.9%
      United Kingdom 71 3.6%
      Ireland 5 0.3%
      Sweden 0 0.0%
    Western Europe 30 1.5%
      Austria 0 0.0%
      France 0 0.0%
      Germany 30 1.5%
      Netherlands 0 0.0%
    Southern Europe 5 0.3%
      Greece 0 0.0%
      Italy 5 0.3%
      Portugal 0 0.0%
      Spain 0 0.0%
   Eastern Europe 8 0.4%
      Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) 0 0.0%
      Hungary 0 0.0%
      Poland 0 0.0%
      Romania 0 0.0%
      Belarus 0 0.0%
      Russia 8 0.4%
      Ukraine 0 0.0%
      Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 0.0%
      Yugoslavia 0 0.0%
   Europe, not elsewhere classified 0 0.0%
Asia 270 13.9%
   Eastern Asia 25 1.3%
      China 20 1.0%
            Hong Kong 0 0.0%
            Taiwan 0 0.0%
      Japan 0 0.0%
      Korea 5 0.3%
   South Central Asia 186 9.6%
      Afghanistan 0 0.0%
      Bangladesh 0 0.0%
      India 186 9.6%
      Iran 0 0.0%
      Pakistan 0 0.0%
   South Eastern Asia 52 2.7%
      Cambodia 0 0.0%
      Indonesia 0 0.0%
      Laos 0 0.0%
      Malaysia 0 0.0%
      Philippines 29 1.5%
      Thailand 0 0.0%
      Vietnam 23 1.2%
   Western Asia 7 0.4%
      Iraq 0 0.0%
      Israel 0 0.0%
      Jordan 7 0.4%
      Lebanon 0 0.0%
      Syria 0 0.0%
      Turkey 0 0.0%
      Armenia 0 0.0%
   Asia, not elsewhere classified 0 0.0%
Africa 80 4.1%
   Eastern Africa 20 1.0%
      Ethiopia 0 0.0%
   Middle Africa 0 0.0%
   Northern Africa 29 1.5%
      Egypt 19 1.0%
   Southern Africa 31 1.6%
      South Africa 31 1.6%
   Western Africa 0 0.0%
      Ghana 0 0.0%
      Nigeria 0 0.0%
      Sierra Leone 0 0.0%
   Africa, not elsewhere classified 0 0.0%
Oceania 0 0.0%
   Australia and New Zealand Subregion 0 0.0%
      Australia 0 0.0%
   Melanesia 0 0.0%
   Micronesia 0 0.0%
   Polynesia 0 0.0%
   Oceania, not elsewhere classified 0 0.0%
Latin America 1,443 74.2%
   Caribbean 47 2.4%
      Barbados 0 0.0%
      Cuba 12 0.6%
      Dominican Republic 0 0.0%
      Haiti 0 0.0%
      Jamaica 0 0.0%
      Trinidad and Tobago 35 1.8%
   Central America 1,327 68.2%
      Mexico 1,082 55.6%
      Other Central America 245 12.6%
            Costa Rica 0 0.0%
            El Salvador 53 2.7%
            Guatemala 74 3.8%
            Honduras 83 4.3%
            Nicaragua 35 1.8%
            Panama 0 0.0%
   South America 69 3.5%
      Argentina 0 0.0%
      Bolivia 0 0.0%
      Brazil 8 0.4%
      Chile 0 0.0%
      Colombia 49 2.5%
      Ecuador 0 0.0%
      Guyana 0 0.0%
      Peru 12 0.6%
      Venezuela 0 0.0%
Northern America 34 1.7%
   Canada 25 1.3%
Born at sea 0 0.0%

 

Date: October 2, 2002

[Data based on a sample]
(X) Not applicable.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrix PCT19.
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